Title
Latest Developments In 790Nm-Pumped Tm-Doped Fibre Laser Systems For Dircm Applications
Keywords
Amplifier; Fibre; Laser; Pulsed; Thulium
Abstract
790nm-pumped Tm-doped fibre lasers provide a number of distinct benefits for integration into next generation DIRCM systems. Incorporation of Tm-doped fibre technology into mid-IR laser systems has been demonstrated in two main architectures to date; in early works the fibre laser was used as a low quantum defect pump source for Q-switched solidstate holmium laser which was subsequently shifted to the mid-IR using a ZnGeP2 OPO [1] and more recently, a pulsed fibre laser systems was used for directly pumping the OPO [2]. He we present two fibre laser systems for integration into DIRCM systems. Firstly we present a 70W MOPA system (pump power limited) operating at 1908nm with 53% slope efficiency from the amplifier stage for pumping Ho:YAG. Secondly we present a pulsed fibre laser system producing over 4k W peak power at 1910nm using all single-mode fibres. © 2008 SPIE.
Publication Date
12-1-2008
Publication Title
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume
7115
Number of Pages
-
Document Type
Article; Proceedings Paper
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.800415
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
62649169605 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/62649169605
STARS Citation
Frith, G.; Mccomb, T.; Samson, B.; Torruellas, W.; and Carter, A., "Latest Developments In 790Nm-Pumped Tm-Doped Fibre Laser Systems For Dircm Applications" (2008). Scopus Export 2000s. 9668.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2000/9668